Mame Mephisto I plugin update
Dirk
Hello Retro-Engine Picochess Users,
I have found a bug in the mephisto.lua plugin (for the Mephisto I („Brikett“) which only occurs with newer mame versions and not together with the MessChess.exe file from Franz CBEmu package.
In Picochess we now use higher mame versions than the 0.220 of Franz MessChess that’s why we have this problem.
The internal handling of the display of „check“ changed in higher mame versions this is why a computer move with check could not be detected correctly (here Bishop b4+) causing the game to stop:
Fortunately Franz could figure out the reason and although his MessChess does not need the fix he sent me a lua file update for use in picochess (or any other GUI ) for use with more current mame versions.
Just replace the attached mephisto.file in the picochess folder:
/opt/picochess/engines/mame_emulation/plugins/chessengine/interfaces
Now the check move is detected and the answer move shows up in Picochess correctly:
Have fun with the good old Mephisto I
Dirk
